Nightstars 5

"To my whole family. This is the end of Nightstars but if you didn't hear me before, there is another saga!" 

-M.N

Nightstars 5: Raphael's First Adventure

Chapter 1: Raphael

My name's Raphael. I know my name is after a famous Italian painter and everybody makes fun of my name so I'm always alone. But what's interesting is that my father, Wing, he was always alone too, so we have something in common. 

Me and Wing are lot different: like that Wing was in the Great War, an owl war that was very dangerous and was one of the worst wars in owl history and he survived! Now on the other wing (or hand), I'm a world class wimp. 

Suddenly, I saw Zeus and his group of friends. Zeus is a bully and he and his friends always pick on me. 

"Hey, loser!" said Zeus, all tough.

"Hi Zeus" I say. 

Then they start getting ready to punch me. That's when things get annoying but it doesn't bother me since I get punched everyday. 

Then an acorn hit Zeus. He thought it was me but I said it wasn't. Another acorn hits him. He blames it on me. 

Suddenly, a wave of acorns hits him and his gang of friends and they leave away from the grasses.

But I didn't know who saved me from him and his friends but suddenly a figure popped out from behind a bush and I saw that was Lovate. "Lovate" means love in Owlen. Lovate was the person who saved me. Now it all makes sense. 

Lovate is my girlfriend but she doesn't know that but sadly for me, she is Zeus's girlfriend and that's sucks. 

Suddenly, I saw two figures on the grass. I went towards them but all I got was a bag and then I knew who that were: Dresfer and Rolaf!

I hate those guys. Dad told me about them. They were hawks that were very dangerous and Dad had to deal with them lots in the Great War. 

I tried to call for help but was gagged and so was Lovate. They didn't want witnesses. 

Chapter 2: Wing Finds Out and Tries to Find Him

"Raphael, Raphael!" I call out. "Raphael!"

I go to the grasses where he always is but he's not there! This is weird and if I don't find Raphael soon, I'm going to Hazel. 

The other family is looking for Lovate too and they can't find her. Now this is weird. Two are missing and one is my boy! I'm going to find him!

I travel though the grasses and go up north. The sun is setting so I didn't have much time to look for him and after the sun set, I went to sleep. 

The next morning I woke up and started to search for Raphael but no luck. 

Soon I was in the hot sun still looking for Raphael but I had a break to rest and eat lunch. 

Then I went again to look and then ate dinner. After I went to sleep but I could not sleep so I went back to looking for Raphael but soon I got sleepy and I slowly went to sleep. 

Chapter 3: Raphael and Lovate Try to Escape

I'm still in the bag, trying to escape but the material is very hard and my beak can't break the material. 

Lovate is trying to escape too but no luck too. It looks like we're going to be stuck in here for a long time.  

Dresfer and Rloaf may be stupid at time like when when they were once talking about football and the NHL scores but they are pretty smart as well. 

Suddenly when I pulled really on the strange material there was a hole! I knew you could break the material. 

I told Lovate and her eyes looked like her eyeballs were about to pop out but no time to wast because soon Dresfer and Rloaf will find out what happened. 

Like I said, "Dresfer and Rloaf will find out what happened" , well that's what happened so we got caught again and Dresfer put us in the bag again and to fix the hole, he tied the material again and not only that, but he made the bag even tighter than before and there was a whole lot of space now. 

Chapter 4: Wing Catches up

I was trying and trying to catch up when I was traveling for hours at night. I was trying to fight the beast inside me and the beast is telling me to go to sleep but I'm telling it I need to stay awake because of Raphael. I would love to sleep right now but Raphael is missing and I need to find him and let go of the beast inside me, telling me what to do. 

I stay awake for a few me hours but then I suddenly fall dead because of the sleep. I'm still alive but I need to sleep. 

6 hours later

 I find myself lying here, thinking "why the heck I'm lying here but I suddenly know why I was here: I fell asleep. 

I started to look for him trying to catch up to the time I missed, going as fast as I could but soon I needed a rest. That was my little boost of catching up. 

I walked slow for a little bit, forgetting what I was here for so I went a bit faster flying steadily keeping the beat. 

Later I rested and ate dinner, talking to myself but suddenly I felt something pierce my heart: I was missing my friends but like my mother said "Even the littlest things can hurt a hero." 

And she's right. That's true, very much true. My mother was always very smart with poems. 

After dinner, I was ready for bed and soon I drifted off to sleep and after all, tomorrow's going to be a long day and that means that my batteries are going to need to charge for another long day. 

Chapter 5: Escape

We went bouncing in that bag for another day with only two snails (thanks to Dresfer and Rolaf), and it's going to be a long time till we finally escape again but then again, let's not keep our hopes up too high. 

I was trying to find ways to escape when suddenly I got an idea: I would ask Dresfer and Rolaf for two snails and with the snails I would make them eat the material and we'd be free!

So I asked Dresfer and Rolaf if I could have some snails and he said yes. I got the snails and got them to eat the material. At first they didn't eat it but then they took another look and they ate it. 

They made a hole enough for the two of us to go though. We went though the hole and quietly flew and when they noticed we escaped, we had already hid behind a tree so they wouldn't find us.

"How could we lose them?!" shouted Dresfer. 

"Hole in the bag" answered Rolaf. 

"OK, now things make sense" said Dresfer. "There was a hole in the bag and before we could look in the bag, they hid because if they flew, we would have seen them because they're not so fast. " "So that means that they're still around!" 

I wanted to get out from behind the tree but sadly that would show me and Lovate and we would be chased and Dresfer and Rolaf are ten times faster than us. 

When Dresfer and Rolaf were getting closer to us, Lovate told me we had to move and we quickly and quietly moved along.

When we were far, far away from Dresfer and Rolaf, we flew away from them as fast an we could. 

Chapter 6: Traveling

Now we were officially lost but I thought that we should travel south and that took care of our problem, but before we could travel, we needed fuel: food. 

I started to look for some food in the forest. I know I don't have hunting skills but maybe I could catch something and I did: some small mice. 

When I came back from the forest, I told her that I caught some mice. We ate them gladly and we also saved some for food rations. 

Now we traveled for a little while and soon we went to sleep and soon we would for another long day.

The next morning we woke up and ate breakfast. Then we walked for a bit and soon we ate lunch. After lunch we traveled some more and had dinner and went to bed. 

In the afternoon, at 3:15

Suddenly I saw a figure coming towards us. I turned to fly but then I really saw who it was: Dad!

We came to greet him and I hugged him. He told us that he came because he saw that we were missing and now he's going to take us home. 

We traveled for some time and then we ate dinner, talked for a bit and went to bed. 

The next morning we ate breakfast and flew for a bit and ate lunch. Then we flew again and suddenly I saw something: Dresfer and Rloaf!

Dresfer flew to the ground and so did Dad. 

"So you came, Wing" said Dresfer "My old enemy."

"Dresfer, I see you brought Rolaf" said Dad. 

"Yes, Wing" said Dresfer. "I wanted to kill you when I had the chance but I never got it because the other hawks." "The other hawks made you move around lots in Canada and it's was hard to know where you were because I had to kill Hazel has well, but enough chatter, let's fight."

Chapter 7: Fortunes Change  

The three soared into the sky and the first to attack was Dresfer but Dad blocked the attack. Dad slashed Dresfer but Dresfer smashed Dad and he went tumbling down but Dad accelerated just when he was about to hit the ground. 

Dresfer quickly smashed him again but Dad slashed Dresfer but before Dad could notice, Dresfer stabbed him in the chest!

Dad fell down but he had a knife as well and he threw it at Dresfer, but he dodged it and it landed on Rloaf. 

He fell down and he died as well.

"Dad!" I shouted "Dad!"

But he didn't answer. 

"Dad!" I sobbed "Dad!" 

He still didn't answer so now he was really dead but though all the sobbing, me and Lovate didn't notice that Dresfer had went away. 

We traveled back home and we finally reached it. I told Mom about Dad and she sobbed very hard as well but she told me about Dad and how his dad and his mom died too so that two common owls.

Chapter 8: All is At Peace

Now thing's are better than ever. I'm popular and have lots of friends. Zeus and his friends don't bully me and all is good. 

Lovate said that she likes me and we spend our free time playing with each other. We enjoy playing games and flying but most of all, she likes sitting in the grasses and talking about lots of things. 

I think in heaven, Dad says to himself that all is at peace. All is all peace.